Packrat is a package for `R` which allows the creation of "drag and drop" projects, together with libraries and their required packages.
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Packrat::restore() for system dependencies
I was developing a shiny-app on a Windows machine in Rstudio. Now I need to develop it on a Linux machine and later on will need to deploy it on a server. Because of the need to run the app across platforms, I was looking into some environment…

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How to Manage R Packages given Windows 255 file path limit, e.g. checkpoint and Rcpp?
So I was trying to install Rcpp using the checkpoint package (with a March 1st 2020 date).
Most of my packages were fine, but Rcpp specifically makes a lot of temporary directories that it then deletes, for example:…

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packrat restore when switching between git branches with different packages
I'm making large changes to an R project on a different git branch which includes changes to packrat packages and versions. When I switch back to the original master branch after making those changes, I need to run packrat::restore() to get back to…

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Is it possible to install different package versions within an R personal library for one specific version of R
Is it possible to install different package versions within a R personal library for one specific version of R; and then to be able to load the exact package version withing a script?
I am trying to make sure I have the exact package version…

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packrat not bundling all files
I have developed several shiny applications on a development server. To aid with deployment to our production server I've written a function that uses packrat's bundle function to bundle up the application. My function then sftps the bundle to the…

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packrat init in an existing project does not initialise
I have a working project on Rstudio Server and I want to freeze all packages into the actual working versions to avoid future issues due to global library updates.
So I run
> packrat::init()
Initializing packrat project in directory: -…

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R 3.5.1 - Building data.table from source fails on Travis CI
I'm currently trying to set up continuous integration for a bookdown-project
The project bundles dependencies with packrat, so Travis CI needs to build the required packages from source. This seems to go okay for many packages, but the build is…

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Deploy Rshiny app from local machine packrat project bundle to linux server
I have build a packrat rshiny project and bundled the project to a tar.gz file.
Now, When I am trying to move this to linux server which doesn't have Rshiny package and doesn't have privileges to install packages.
When I run the app from linux…

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How to know if I'm in packrat mode in R command line?
If I'm using RStudio it is very easy to know if I'm in packrat mode: I just open the packages tab and click the Packrat icon. However, I don't know any commands to do it programatically or outside RStudio. Also, packrat commands such as…

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Initialising packrat for new project so it contains existing packages
I want to start using package management for R projects. I am trying to use the packrat package. When I start a new project, I select the "Use packrat with this project" in the GUI. Or I could use packrat::init(). Both work OK. However, unless I am…

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package installed, but not found when knitting
Can anyone suggest troubleshooting tips for the case where you can load a package from the console, but not when knitting?
I have a project in RStudio that uses Packrat. The package I want to load is installed and registered in Packrat. I can load…

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Packrat: Dependencies unavailable
I think I might be unsure of the workflow packrat expects.
I'm trying to make a docker image using packrat for dependencies management. As a simple example, I've:
Created a completely new project
Ran
packrat::on()…

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r packrat unbundle not recreating libraries
I am having trouble understanding what I am doing wrong when deploy a shiny application on shiny server using packrat to managing the libraries.
I create project test-deploy in RStudio, then initiate packrat with.
packrat::init()
As I work I am…

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Re-initialize with packrat::init()
I have no idea how to make this problem reproducible, but here is a description of the problem nevertheless. I upgraded to R v 3.4.0 yesterday (sessionInfo() is below) and one of my RStudio projects couldn't update packages in packrat. After…

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packrat cannot sync package versions with CRAN
I installed packrat and tried to initialize it in my project directory, which uses R 3.2.5:
> packrat::init("~/ope_orx")
I get the complete list of packages and then packrat tries to fetch sources and I get this type of error for almost all…

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